HOW THEY PROVE THE EARTH ROTATES (REVISED VERSION)

EXPERT EXPLANATION OF THE FOUCAULT PENDULUM

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• EARTH
• ROTATES
• EXPLANATION
• PENDULUM
• FOUCAULT
• GRIFFITH
• PARK
• OBSERVATORY

[phantomx199119]

what is the song at the beginning called?

[pricelessclips]

@phantomx199119

That's a royalty free music from a musician from internet. I didn't get to save a copy with it's title and lost the link.

I think it was something like "Angels" singing.

[Dark1Masta]

his voice is not clear -.-

[pricelessclips]

I suggest you listen to the explanation using a nice headphones. I always use one and its not that bad. He really talks fast but the main idea is clear enough.

[scot0129]

@PivotBloodArrow Clouds move too...

Not to be a troll/hater or anything, but your argument is invalid...

[DarkLento]

Recently coming from a video where someone tried to disprove the earth spinning by using a car and a toy helecopter, it's nice to see a video with someone demonstrating interesting experitmental technique. It's also nice to post a comment without getting it deleted by the author.

[DarkLento]

@PivotBloodArrow The clounds move by the flow of air in the troposphere generated by regions of low and high air pressure.

[mitomano88]

Yes, the change in the direction of Foucault's Pendulum's motion CAN be used to argue the earth is moving (rotating and/or orbiting), as it is used in the explanation in the video. BUT it CAN ALSO be used to argue that the earth is NOT moving, attributing the change in direction of the pendulum's motion NOT to any movement on the part of the earth BUT RATHER to the gravitational effect of the rotation of the whole universe moving around a FIXED EARTH. Peace.

[PivotBloodArrow]

I KNOW ANOTHER WAY TO PROVE THAT THE EARTH ROTATES. Look at a cloud. It is not moving. But it LOOKS like it is. The earth rotating makes a cloud look like its moving. Therefore. The earth rotates.

[clscrock]

it actualy can tell time. the one in boston museum of science does

[jeffreyburr]

I was once advised by one mr. John Dobson that, since the earth is part of the entire cosmos and everything in there follows the laws of motion, the pendulum shows not only the motion of the earth, but the momentum of the entire universe. Or as he eloquently put it, "If your hair doesn't stand on end when observing this you must be dead."